drupaceous
/droo-pey-shuhs/US // druˈpeɪ ʃəs //
核果型,核果类,核果型的,核果类动物
Definitions
adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
Botany.
- : resembling or relating to a drupe; consisting of drupes.
- : producing drupes: drupaceous trees.
Examples
There are such names as "galbulus," "amphisarca," and "inferior drupaceous pseudocarps," but these are probably disappearing.
Ovary 1-celled with two bilamellar parietal placent, or 2–4-celled by their union, becoming drupaceous or capsular.
The fruit of the Hawthorn is a drupaceous pome, something between pome and drupe.
In his eyes, the walnut and the coco-nut are not nuts, but 'drupaceous fruits,' just like the plum and the cherry.
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